More than any religions restrict freedom of thoughts and expressions. Do you differ?

Question

Indirectly through teachings irrelvant to universal love, brotherhood and time, it promotes hatred and violence.

Answer 1

Your question is based on the assumption that religion should be based on universal love, well this is just what you think. I never come across a single organised religion which is based on oniversal love, most of the religion is basically about relation between Creator and His creature. Of couse It have negative said also. It teaches to hate and dislike evil. Unconditional and universal love is actually evil with beuatiful wordings. If you love robers, looters, killers, rapists and sexual pervers in the name of universal love, how can it be good?
As per freedom of expression, this is absolutely deceptive word. No society can exists with unrestricted freedom of expression and so is religion. Can you go to US and express your hatred and dislike towards US nation itself? can you praise fighters in Iraq who are fighting against american occupants? can you burn american flag in america? if not than where exactly is the freedome of expression. If you believe in freedome of expression, than you should give others right to speak against the concept of freedome of expression. is not it a paradox?

Answer 2

What's religion, universal love, brotherhood and time? If any or all restrict your freedom of thought and expression then they are false doctrines you chose to follow. It's your problem.

"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition." (II Thess. 2:3)

"[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few."-- John Adams (An Essay on Man's Lust for Power, 29 August 1763)

Make it a great day!

Answer 3

I am not certain what you are saying, but it SEEMS that you are claiming that religions restrict freedom of thoughts and expressions.
I would say, definitely NOT, because most people do not think of all the evils that religions prohibit. They get their ideas of fornication, violence, etc., from the various religions and spread those ideas.
So, no, they do not restrict, but promote ideas. The trouble is, most people are evil in intent and completely distort the views of religion. The notion of "universal love, brotherhood" is a carry-over from the hippies of the '50s and '60s. It did not work for them then, it does not work now. It DOES promote sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted babies, drugs, booze, violence. Is that what you want?

Answer 4

you are wrong, brother! It is not religion which promotes hatred and violence but categorical denial of what is obvious . I'll give an example, just go through the questions on this portal and you wil realise how even the most educated people seem to find the theory of ONE GOD undigestible. I mean, someone please elucidate! People are ready to worship idols made with their own hands but fail to relate to the comcept of LORD, THE ALMIGHTY. They say GOD is omnipresent, provider of all bounties and sorrows but in the same breath restrict him to statues, feed him with milk and food, bathe him.....i mean are these people for real? Then there are those who allot sons to HIM, well, to have a child, we need a mother also, where is she? MY LORD! is it so difficult to accept LORD without any of these excess baggages? May be it is... As far as violence is concerned, QURAAN says, a corrupt person, someone who is nothing but a menace to the society should be killed, if he refuses to change his ways; that is. I agree with this. I know, a lot of people become self confessed scholars of islam , without reading QURAAN with HADEES and pick out lines where ALLAH has asked to kill the mischief makers. What's there to shock? I mean, how many times do we watch our corrupt politicians on news channels, caught in some dirty scam and don't feel like burrying them right there? In china, punishment for a corrupt person is 'death sentence'. But no body will comment on that. I definetly don't approve of killing innocent people, neither does ISLAM. I feel prejudices on the basis of incomplete knowledge or Half truths gives germ to hatred and violence of any kind. As a muslim, i face that and can identify with 'anyone' who is a victim of prejudiced behaviour.

Answer 5

The ideal religion never asks you to act against the law of nature. It only gives you the regulatory rules to make your life smooth. All the problems are created by the misunderstandings created by the religious leaders and some followers. If you have a right guide or Guru for your faith you will learn that all religions are full of love and Harmony.

Answer 6

I think you mean to ask, do religions restrict ones freedom of individual thought and expression? Then yes, absolutely. The tenets of religion are nothing more complicated than restricting members from having individualistic ideas and acting upon them. You can not control if you allow your followers to question your teachings or your right to teach.

Answer 7

I do agree, religious programing has caused more violence and hatred than any other organization in the history of mankind, and continues to do so to this day.

Answer 8

If you are asking if religions restrict freedom of thought and expression then the answer is no more than any belief system no matter its basis.

Answer 9

Not all religions do that .There are some religions that encourage freedom of thought, expression and inquest .They are ancient ;but surprisingly most modern in this aspect

Answer 10

Huh?

"But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love"

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life"

"I would that you love one another" - (Jesus)

Yeah, those are the three biggie verses, I can see how you'd get hatred and violence out of those (insert eye roll here)